A day turquoise rockhounding near Kingman Arizona

On a nice Monday morning me and the girls Marina age 8 and Morgan age 6 decided to go out and find some Turquoise. We headed out form Needles CA and headed north through Bullhead city to Route 68 towards Kingman, we took that to 93 and headed towards Vegas. Less then a few miles from there is a road called Mineral park road. well up that road a few miles then off road for a bit and you come to a pile of rocks that are dumped out of the mine as waste rock.

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A day turquoise rockhounding near Kingman Arizona

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As legend would have it, out on the deep blue sea, the pirates and sailors often found themselves in a passionate love/fear relationship with the ocean.  It was the ocean that would carry them to distant shore but it was the fury of the waves that could tear their ship apart and pull them all down to the depths of the ocean.  It was not uncommon for the sailors to find solace in the believed power of the aquamarine gemstone.

The Deep Blue Sea Is Found Onshore In A Gemstone

Aquamarine is a gemstone that gets it’s name from two Latin words that mean water and sea.  This gemstone can vary in color from pale blue to blue green, the colors of the ocean.  It is said that when the stone is held underwater, it seems to completely disappear.
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Aquamarine Gemstones Once Believe To Have Magical Powers

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